May 11, 2012 | Aberdeen decides against alternative medicine chair: Paul Jump (Times Higher Education) A university has decided against a controversial proposal to establish a chair in a brand of alternative medicine that advocates mistletoe as a cure for cancer. |
March 21, 2011 | Anthroposophic medicine at the University of Michigan? Say it ain’t so! Posted to the Respectful Insolence blog by Orac – If twenty years ago someone had told me that one day that not only would my medical alma mater be publishing dreck like this, but that it would have formed an interdisciplinary program devoted to it, I would have told that person he was delusional. If you had told me that anthroposophy would be part of a larger program of woo run by a physician who is described as having “studied herbalism and spiritual healing for 14 years with a Native American Healer” and as having research interests that include the “use of herbs, energy healing, environmental healing, and the therapeutic relationship” or that a physician trained in “functional medicine” would be a big part of a program in anthroposophic medicine there, I wouldn’t have believed it. |
October 18, 2010 | Anthroposophy: A Risk Factor for Noncompliance With Measles Immunization (PDF) Edzard Ernst, MD, PhD, FMedSci, FSB, FRCP, FRCPEd. |
January 9, 2009 | Measles Outbreaks: not just a British tragedy, but a European one as well. By Matthew Hartfield. Counterknowledge |
March 19, 2008 | Measles Epidemic (in German) A large outbreak of measles in Salzburg, Austria has been reported. …at a Waldorf school in Salzburg. The the local health department is trying to limit the damage by offering information and recommending vaccination for all children at the school who are not yet vaccinated. Apparently, in Nordrhein-Westfalen were the latest large epidemic occurred, out of 2000 infected, one child died and there’s evidence of lasting damage due to encephalitis among the survivors |
February 25, 2007 | Steiner’s Quackery by former Waldorf student Roger Rawlings |
January 30, 2007 | Growing Up Being Made Sick by Anthroposophy by Robert Smith-Hald. |
December 23, 2006 | Mistletoe as a treatment for cancer: Has no proved benefit, and can cause harm By Edzard Ernst, BMJ 2006:333; 1281-1283. |
December 23, 2006 | Subcutaneous inflammation mimicking metastatic malignancy induced by injection of mistletoe extract By A.I. Finall, S.A. McIntosh, W.D. Thompson, BMJ 2006:333; 1293-1294. |
December 6, 2006 | Anthroposophic Medicine by Robert Todd Carroll. Skeptics Dictionary |
December 21, 2004 | Mistletoe – viable alternative cancer treatment, or just a placebo with dangerous side-effects? Edzard Ernst in The Guardian |
September 2002 | Bucking The Herd by Arthur Allen: Atlantic Monthly article on a vaccination controversy in Boulder, Colorado |
1997 | Anthroposophical Medicine by William Jarvis, PhD, National Council Against Health Fraud |